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Round Strikes North Las Vegas Officer's Badge

A stray bullet struck a North Las Vegas police officer's badge during an exchange of gunfire with an armed man Saturday evening, the Las Vegas Sun reports.

The 31-year-old officer, whose name was not immediately released, suffered only minor injuries.

While on patrol, the officer heard shots from an apartment complex. When he approached, he noticed a suspicious person who he tried to stop. The exchange of gunfire followed, then the suspect fled. Police are searching for the man.

A former police officer—now an elected official with the Missouri House of Representatives—wants to force any city with a population of 5,000 or fewer inhabitants, with an area of less than two square miles, to disband its police department and contract for law enforcement services with either the county police department or a larger neighboring city.